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Rather than a complicated session management system (which re-invents the wheel) or having to wait for extra session initiation overhead equal to the number of pictures transferred, there is an easy alternative: use the ImageMagick tools to stitch the pictures together into one (using montage), transfer it in a single session, then slice it up on the phone (since you're already using the library to resize the image, combining them in the same command incurs little additional overhead).

A more simple alternative is to concatenate the images into a (technically invalid) byte stream and transfer that to the phone, slicing it based on the known original size of each file.

Currently RemoteGallery resizes images to the local device's resolution.

A simple option to either have 1x, 2x, or full resolution.

Have a menu entry on the image viewer to open the image on the Gallery app.

Hi,

I followed your guide to set this up (I already have SSH connections to my server, never used Dropbear for it though) but I get that the string is too long.

The SSH connection seems alright when runnig the test connection in the client. But the row after that says:
/data/data/net.cachapa.remotegallery/files/ssh:
exited: string too long

What is that?

Quotation marks in file names cause the download to fail.
They should be escaped prior to being fed to the ssh download.

If there is a colon in the filename of an image, it chokes.
“Error:/mnt/sdcard/RemoteGallery/1/cache/$filename.jpg.temp (Invalid argument)”

I suspect this is related to the ssh command that transfers the file to android.

Thanks!

Wiki page on github does not include a way to contact developer. Maybe I am lazy, but I will keep looking, in the mean time, please update wiki with instructions on how to contact developer. Also coknsider adding dev contact info to website referrenced in the in-app help.
I have not even tried my rsa dropbear key yet, but I was hoping to find out whether it is supported or not. Maybe this shows my novice linux experience but for the less educated, knowing if rsa (instead of just dss) is supported would be nice.
Thank you for making such a cool app!

Long-form options are particularly variable across UNIX variants, notably including OS X. The option ‘-p’ is a synonym that should be much more reliable than the current ‘–indicator-style=slash’ and I’ve verified its validity on OS X’s variant (as well as the GNU version generally seen on Linux desktops).

Additionally, all option arguments must come before the first file in many BSD versions of ls.

My solution to both these issues is a simple patch:

--- a/src/net/cachapa/remotegallery/ssh/SshOutputReader.java
+++ b/src/net/cachapa/remotegallery/ssh/SshOutputReader.java
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ public class SshOutputReader extends Ssh {

        public ArrayList<DirEntry> listDir(String path, final LogCallback logCallback) {
                String remoteCommand = "ls" +
-                       " '" + serverConf.remotePath + path + "'" +
-                       " --indicator-style=slash";
+                       " -p" + 
+                       " '" + serverConf.remotePath + path + "'" ;

                final ArrayList<DirEntry> dirEntries = new ArrayList<DirEntry>();
                LogCallback dirListCallback = new LogCallback() {

Allow zooming in when viewing images.

This is a tough one. A good implementation would require a lot of custom code.
Using a WebView would also work, but it's not an ideal user experience.

Could you add a feature (implemented similar to the share feature) which deletes the file locally and also issues a ssh rm $filename to the remote location? Perhaps rename would be another useful feature? These would make remotegallery a somewhat competent photo manager as well as great gallery viewer.

Some work has already been done to make Remote Gallery look better on tablets, but it would be nice to have multiple panes using Android fragments.

Specifically:

• Adding a server configuration: Server list on the left, configuration on the right
• Preferences (?)
• Image browser should show various lists simultaneously
• Hybrid view with image list on the left and a large image on the right. Clicking the image will bring it to full screen

Also, use the standard Android action bar instead of a custom one.

Reported on the blog entry:
Re command switches for ls the –indicator-style=slash is not supported on *BSD, use -p instead, bsd ls man page, should be supported on both.

Link: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ls&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html